Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-07-15
PERSONAL MATTERS.

James Russell Lowell is said to be aging
rapidly in appearance
Joseph II. Choate now occupies his new
antique house at Stockbrdge, Mass.
Captain Jack Hussey, who saved so many
lives at Castle Garden, could not read.
Senator Stanford has vineyard contain
ing 5000 acres the largest in the world.
viii NJ Carleton, the poet has been elected
a trustee OF the Hillsdale tMich.) college.
Congressman Patrick A. Collins, of Boston,
has gone to Europe for two months trip.
John Donaghue the Boston sculptor, is
making a life sized statue of John L. Sulli-
van.
The remains of NJ Theirs have recently
been removed to a new grave at Pere la
Chaise.
William OBrien, the Irish editor, is sep
arated from his wife. She was a soubrette
actress.
Father Bagley, of Baltimore, who devoted
all of his life to missionary work in that city,
is dead.
Col Lamont says that days sojourn in
the Adronacks cost the presidential party
only 81 per capita.
Erastus Wiman is described as quick and
nervous, an indefatigable business man, APP
proachabe and good speaker.
Judge Hilton's park at Saratoga now COM
prises 600 acres 1t is said to be the hand
soonest private park in the country.
A. Mercie Paris, has been awarded the
contract for the equestrian statue of Gen.
Robert E. Lee to be erected in Richmond.
Daniel Mcfarland the slayer of Albert d.
Richardson, has been forced by poverty and
i'll health to accept quarters in the New York
almshouse.
Solicitor McCue, of the treasury depart
ment, has made S15O,OO0 in real estate in
Washington in the two years during which
he has been resident of that city.
r. e. Parker, of Battle Creek, Mich, has
81 bill which was 1l3 years old last April,
having been issued two years before the Dec
aration of Independence was signed.
Gen Boulangers friends consider that his
appointment to the command of the Thir-
tenth army corps of France is an unlucky
omen Tor the beligerent ex-war minister
Mr.. Parnells name is usually spoken in
England and this country with the accent on
the second syllable. But he and his closest
friends accent it properly on the first syllable.
NJ Capoul, the tenor singer, boxed the
ears OF Edmund Strulig at a recent rehear-
sal i'll Paris for having spoken of his perform
ance of the day before as pitiful exhibition.
NJ A. Menier, the French chocolate king, "
who will spend the summer in this country,
owns probably the finest yacht in France, and
! on his way hither travelled III it from Havre
to Hong Kong.
Viii Fox, of Rochester, Mich. has large
turtle which, 1t is said, he is training to drive
to harness. When hitched to a load it will
already draw like a pOuitice, and III time will
undoubtedly become very useful
Rev Samuel Longfellow, the poet S brother,
who was for several years in charge of q
! Unitarian church i'll Germantown, keeps up q
regular correspondence from his Boston home
with his friends III other cities
Henry Labouchere thus criticises Holman
Hunts picture, The Awakened Conscience:'
an plain language, l should say Of this pic
ture that it is the art Of the nursery, the
color Of the jam pot and the sentiment OF the
Salvation army
d. w. Dougherty, son of Daniel Dough
erty, recently came near losing his life at a
bud fight at SarasOssa, Spain The bull
escaped from the pit and charged among the
spectators, and Mr.. Dougherty narrowly
escaped his horns.
Professor Tyndall gives this explanation OF
why so many eminent scholars have turned
against Mr.. Gladstone: "Trained," he says
"in the veracities of nature, they have small
tolerance for the sophistries of the Englisl
home rule leader"
Rev. E. Walpole Warren, the new rector
of Holy Trinity, New York, who has beel
called" from England, is the son of til,
author of Ten Thousand Year." the lega
novel which caused such a sensation som,
years ago.
Professor Henry Drummond has been en-
gagged to lecture at the Chatauqua anC
birmingham assemblies Professor Drum
mond is well known to the literary world
through his Natural Law Of the Spirit
World and is also an admired lecturer Oh
science.
General Stephen Thomas, Of Shenandoah
valley fame, was in Boston and assisted il
the Bunker Hill anniversary celebration b,
firing of one of the big guns mounted behinI
the old breastworks occupied by the colonia
troops Both his grandfathers took part il
the revolution on the American side.
The bishop of Ossory, who composed
hymn for the queens jubilee, won prize 70
a poem or the queens accession i'll 1887.
is told that on that occasion, eager to lear
the result of his effort, he rushed into tn
presence of the dons without his cap an
gown, for which breach of discipline he wa
fined at the very moment of hearing of hi
triumph
Mr. Edison, the inventor, will eat beef
steak only in meat. He likes all kinds G
vegetables, and for dessert always take
J fruit, strawberries being favortes. 1t onl
! takes him few minutes TO eat dinner Sour
are omitted from his table. When Mr.. Ed
) SON uses the telephone he fairly shocks who
J ever receives his message by talking yer
loudly Being slightly deaf he does not az
r preciate the high pitch of his own voice.
I WHEELING AND WHEElMeN.